Hacking of voter registration databases
The idea that Russia had the ability to overwrite voter registration databases “in at least two Florida counties”— St Lucie and Washington — makes this old analysis of voter registration data in Pennsylvania seem relevant today.
The puzzling composition of registered voters in Pennsylvania was analyzed (before, after, and a few months after the November 2016 election). There are numerous anomalies such as
-Cloned voters (7,299) who both appear (as of 11/28/2020) in the database (Same name, address, birthdate, voter ID) as having voted in the November election but these clones subsequently disappear by February.
-In Pennysylvania, lots of voters were over 100 years old, and the registration file showed birthdates for 798 as Jan 1, 1800. These were people who actually show as having voted in 2016.
The names of the duplicates In the Pennsylvania analysis are blurred, which is another pet peeve. We pretend it’s a matter of privacy, yet there’s no real privacy when corporations and foreigners are scraping data and compiling it in massive “total information” databases. Instead, we make transparency impossible. (Just like the kids being smuggled by ICE across the border — faces blurred supposedly to protect their privacy, but really what it accomplishes is to remove accountability from the culprits that mistreat them. And in fact to dehumanize them in the eyes of people who might otherwise be moved to read the story.)
When I hear of “very high voter turnout”, I wonder if it’s enthusiasm, or duplicated votes. When I hear that large amounts of data flowed back and forth around the time of the election to a server between the trump campaign and some Russian bank, I wonder. When I hear of voter data leaked, or left open on the Internet, I assume it is probably fraudulent manipulation of voter access to the polls.
Cheating to win has become ingrained habit. Other examples are found in this article about Georgia after the probably-stolen Ossoff election.
https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-machine-vendors-87278fdb0cdf
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